Affidavit says school bus was struck by crossfire, bond set at $350,000

A car-to-car shooting caused a bullet to fly into a nearby school bus with dozens of people on board earlier this month in Whitehaven, according to an arrest affidavit.

Police have said a 15-year-old girl was struck by window glass as a result of the crossfire during the Sept. 10 shooting in the area of Raines and Millbranch, police said.

The victim was taken to the hospital and released later that day.

Kortez Collins, 23, has been charged with 28 counts of aggravated assault, one for each person on the bus at the time.

An arrest affidavit says the bus driver could not identify who fired the shots.

But video from inside the school bus showed a man later identified as Collins inside a Nissan Altima firing shots at a silver Chrysler 300.

Police later found the driver of the Chrysler, who said people in a Nissan Altima fired at him. He identified Collins as the driver of the Altima and the person who fired shots.

Investigators then received information that a woman owned the Nissan Altima. Police interviewed her and she said she was in the car at the time of the shooting, the affidavit says. Another witness told police that Collins fired two gunshots through an open front passenger side window in front of an unknown passenger in the front seat.